Jennifer Holliday Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Jennifer Holliday Quotes. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Jennifer Holliday Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

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I am, you know, really fighting for myself and my life.

I am, you know, really fighting for myself and my life. And I think the message that I could give to anybody is that it’s never too late to start your life again and dream new dreams.
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Some people run away from things.
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I know that the music industry has changed, but I’d love it if Adele and John Legend would write me songs.
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A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don’t see a big picture for our lives. We don’t love ourselves. We don’t have a way of kind of gauging the future.
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I do think the love-gone-wrong songs go over better, only because those melodies and those lyrics have a different feel that you can grasp on if you’re a torch singer like myself.
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I continually still fight every day for my life, not only still battling mental health problems but battling multiple sclerosis, which also has depression as one of its side effects.
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Usually, if someone wants an inspiring-type numberpatriotic, gospel, big love song – then I think you do think of me.
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When I was suffering with depression, people weren’t talking about depression. It had a stigma.
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I had ballooned out to close to 400 pounds at one point. And in the ’80s, we were just beginning to get on video and disco. So therefore, I did not fit in, and my record company let me go because they said, ‘Look, you’re just not marketable enough with the weight problem.’
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It was a very hard decision to let people know about the multiple sclerosis because we’re in an industry where illness is not something that show business likes.
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Haven‘t a lot of us just missed at a lot of things and thought that we wouldn’t have another chance at it? So we give up early.
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If your mind is not willing, everything will go. There’s so much great power of our mind that we take for granted, and how we think and what positiveness can do.
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The music industry is a very rough industry. Many years ago, I think it was even rougher in the sense that a lot of it was predicated on image.
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Either you can sing, or you can’t.
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When I was with Geffen Records, I weighed almost 400 pounds. The label told me that I had a great voice but wasn’t marketable having a weight image.
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For a long time, they thought I had lupus, then they thought I had something else. Finally, when I couldn’t walk, they did a spinal tap and conclusively diagnosed me with M.S.
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The gay community has been so faithful and good to me.
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I was privileged to know the late, great Miss Etta James, and I did get a chance to spend some time with her and hang out with her.
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I have been blind. I have been paralyzed. But each day, if I wake up, then I know He’s left me here for a reason, and I have to say yes. And I have to get up. And I have to make the best of that day.
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I’m quite sure we all have a sweet love song that we dance to or recall from our wedding or something, like ‘At Last,’ but I think that it is the love-gone-wrong songs that touch even men.
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The biggest thing I’ve had to overcome was clinical depression. Your mind is the most powerful weapon you have once you can get control of your mind… I had to stop hearing the negative voices where Jennifer was not worthy of love or living.
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For singers, our singing voice is our natural voice, not the speaking.
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A lot of times we base everything just on our immediate circumstance. We don’t see a big picture for our lives. We don’t love ourselves. We don’t have a way of kind of gauging the future, so we count it lost.
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I’m not like Stephanie Mills or Whitney Houston with actual hits. My fans think everything I did was a hit.
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